Section 12: Advanced Features
Ready to take your Luminate skills to the next level? This section covers powerful features for experienced users - from managing multiple salon locations to handling complex appointment bookings.
Tutorials in This Section
12.1 Multi-Salon Management for Owners
Own multiple locations? Luminate lets you manage them all from one account. Learn how to create additional salons, switch between salon contexts, understand how data is isolated between locations, and manage staff across your business.
Time: 15-20 minutes
12.2 Advanced Appointment Features - Linked Bookings and Multi-Service
Some treatments need several services in one visit. This guide covers booking multi-service appointments, how linked appointments share a booking group, handling colour treatments that need processing time between services, grouping existing bookings together (including across different stylists), and moving, cutting and cancelling a linked booking.
Time: 15-20 minutes
12.3 Customising Your Calendar - Colours, Views, and Filters
Make the calendar work for you. Learn how to switch between Today, Week, and List views, understand colour-coding for services and statuses, use filters to find specific appointments, and navigate efficiently through your schedule.
Time: 10-15 minutes
12.4 Importing and Exporting Data
Export your salon data for backup, GDPR compliance, or migration. This guide covers the Data Export tool (full salon and individual customer exports in JSON or CSV), report exports to CSV and PDF, transaction document downloads, and the bulk import process for new salons.
Time: 15-20 minutes
12.5 Colour Formulas
Record exactly what went into every colour mix. This guide covers enabling colour formulas, the unified Colour Formula dialog and where it appears, planning a formula and recording actuals, finalising and reverting, the overage charge badge, and duplicating a formula from a customer's history.
Time: 15 minutes
Recommended Reading Order
These tutorials can be read in any order based on your needs:
- 12.1 Multi-Salon Management - Essential if you operate multiple locations
- 12.3 Customising Your Calendar - Helpful for everyone using the appointments system
- 12.2 Advanced Appointment Features - For salons offering complex treatments
- 12.4 Importing and Exporting Data - When you need to get data out of Luminate
- 12.5 Colour Formulas - For salons recording structured colour work
Who Should Read This Section
- Salon owners with multiple locations - Start with Tutorial 12.1
- Colour specialists - Focus on Tutorial 12.2 for linked bookings, and Tutorial 12.5 for recording formulas
- New users wanting to customise - Tutorial 12.3 covers calendar views
- Managers preparing reports - Tutorial 12.4 covers all export options
- Handling GDPR requests - Tutorial 12.4 covers individual customer data exports
Next Steps
After completing Section 12, consider exploring:
- Section 13: Salon Settings & Configuration - Detailed settings for each salon
- Section 9: Reporting & Analytics - Understanding your business data
- Section 16: Role-Specific Guides - Tailored guides for each user role
Last Updated: August 2026